Want to help expand America’s hottest social agency in Europe? Movers+Shakers is looking for entrepreneurial leaders to grow our London office!
Movers+Shakers is a new kind of creative agency, built for the era of social & agility. We act as a creative AOR, influencer agency, and production house -- streamlined to drive cultural relevance with Gen Z and Millennials.
Brands like e.l.f., Netflix, Tinder, and Amazon rely on Movers+Shakers to win on social and beyond. We’ve gotten our clients over 250 billion views -- from explosive brand campaigns to viral daily content.
Fast Company named Movers+Shakers one of the "Most Innovative Companies" in the world, and Ad Age named us a "Small Agency of the Year" (three years in a row). Adweek called us "the best agency in the world at creating campaigns on TikTok."
HQ’d in London the team will be in office in Bankside approximately three days a week, alongside Stagwell Holding sister agencies. Stagwell is a challenger holding company includes teams such as Anomaly, Forsman & Bodenfors, and Assembly.
Intrigued? Read on…
As a Strategy Director, Social Media, you’ll own the strategic direction for the Always On brand channels for our clients with a global reach. We are seeking a strategic visionary with a passion for making brands stand out in the ever-evolving world of social media. Someone that enjoys playing an active role in culture and is hungry for innovation.
This will be a full-time, permanent position.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Cross-functional Team Leadership.
- Collaborating with, guiding, mentoring and supercharging a multidisciplinary group of Movers+Shakers including culture strategists, social strategists, social media managers, community managers, creatives, influencer managers, video editors, data strategists and producers; all in various stages of their careers.
- Pushing the team to proactively bring bold and creative ideas to the table.
Content Elevation.
- Being the first to understand, evangelize and implement best practices, formats, hacks, innovations and opportunities in social content.
- Leveraging data, analytics, social listening and intuition to drive innovation and continuous strategic and creative improvement on specific social accounts and between accounts.
- Guiding tone, voice and copywriting skills to align with Gen Z and millennial demographics, platform behaviors and brand objectives.
- Leveraging your intuitive sense for what makes great social content, and what could take in-progress work to the next level.
Knowledge and Inspiration Sharing
- Being a social media evangelist - deeply immersed in culture, constantly sharing and acting on new resources, hacks, updates, and intel.
- Regularly analyzing best-in-class brands and opportunities to inspire new ideas and executions.
- Ability to analyze and understand audience traits and behaviors on social media, both globally and locally
Workflow Streamlining.
- Supervising and steering the month-to-month and day-to-day flow of social content - from trend monitoring, insight generation, creative ideation, content production, posting and reporting and back again.
- Creating, deploying and optimizing new ways-of-working to create social content that may be responsive, evergreen, campaign integrated, trend driven or a mix of all!
- Researching and implementing new tools to increase effectiveness or efficiency.
- Liaising closely with our Heads of Creative, Production and Client Services to uncover and implement best practices and maintain client relationships
- Work cross functionally with other agency partners to ensure seamless execution
Crushing the Comments.
- Working with our Jr Strategists and community managers to identify opportunities for best-in-class platform-breaking “viral” comments and community interaction that achieves client objectives..
- Help our brands quickly pivot during moments of crisis or PR challenges with strong POVs and recommendations driven by consumer sentiment
QUALIFICATIONS
- 8-12+ years of relevant experience
- Professionally experienced, and highly passionate about creative marketing on social media (priority platforms are Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X)
- Experience in the Beauty space is a plus
- Extremely familiar with the social media landscape and products (organic and paid) and how they can be leveraged for key marketing objectives.
- Proven ability to proactively identify opportunities or threats and propose and implement solutions to navigate them.
- A broad understanding of digital marketing and how social media contributes to brand/business growth.
- Preferred but not critical experience in the tech industry, with a track record of understanding different product suites and product marketing functions on a global scale
- Proven ability to facilitate cross-functional collaboration across account, media, production, analytics, client teams and beyond.
- Extensive experience in social-first creative agencies, leading organic & paid social, and social-first campaigns. We also highly value in-house experience at tech socially-savvy consumer brands.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and understand audience traits and behaviors on social media, both globally and locally with proven success in creating and executing strategy.
- Demonstrated experience handling multiple clients, projects and workstreams across different territories and proven experience working with or for complex organizational structures
- An obsession and enthusiasm with emerging social platforms and spaces
- Passion and experience delighting clients and going above & beyond.
- Proven ability to thrive in an often unstructured, fast-paced environment.
- Spreads Joy!
We look forward to hearing from you! 🎵💃
